Test Bank for Nursing Research in Canada,
5th Edition Updated Actual Exam Question
and Answer (2026/2027) | Grade A+
• A key step to the development of nursing research was
a. the endowment of nursing research chairs.
b. universities offering baccalaureate nursing programs.
c. a baccalaureate degree becoming the entry to practice.
d. the Canadian Nurses Association developing a research mandate. -✓✓ b.
universities offering baccalaureate nursing programs.
• How is nursing research significant to the profession of nursing?
a. Responsibility is more specifically defined.
b. Liability within the practice of nursing is decreased.
c. A specialized body of knowledge is generated for use in the delivery of health
care.
d. The scope of nursing practice is expanded into areas formerly reserved for other
disciplines. -✓✓ c. A specialized body of knowledge is generated for use in the
delivery of health care.
• Why are nursing practice-oriented scientific investigations valuable?
a. They validate the effectiveness of particular nursing interventions.
b. They encourage consumers to question the quality of health care.
c. They limit the theory base for clinical decision making.
d. They mandate health care reform. -✓✓ a. They validate the effectiveness of
particular nursing interventions.
• When a change in nursing practice results in decreased cost of care, what
additional factor must be considered before general implementation of this change?
a. Ensuring compliance of the change by nurses with diverse educational
backgrounds.
b. Maintaining or improving the quality of care resulting from the change in
practice.
c. Encouraging patients to be active partners in their health care decisions.
,d. Disseminating the change beyond the discipline of nursing. -✓✓ b. Maintaining
or improving the quality of care resulting from the change in
practice.
• Why do nurses who do not conduct research need to understand the nursing
research process?
a. To identify potential participants for clinical research studies
b. To assist in collecting accurate data for clinical research studies
c. To teach patients and families about the usefulness of participation in research
d. To be able to evaluate nursing research reports for relevance to their own
clinical practice -✓✓ d. To be able to evaluate nursing research reports for
relevance to their own clinical practice
• How are nursing theory and nursing research related?
a. Nursing theory and nursing research are independent of each other and have no
direct relationship.
b. Without nursing theory, research conducted by nurses would not have an impact
on nursing practice.
c. Nursing research drives the direction and specific content of nursing theory.
d. Nursing theory and nursing research both advance the knowledge base of
nursing. -✓✓ d. Nursing theory and nursing research both advance the knowledge
base of nursing.
• Which action demonstrates the role of an intelligent consumer of nursing
research?
a. Designing a research study.
b. Analyzing data to determine outcomes.
c. Evaluating the credibility of the research findings.
d. Replicate the study in another setting to confirm the findings. -✓✓ c. Evaluating
the credibility of the research findings.
• In designating research functions to nursing staff, which of the following
functions would you designate to a staff registered nurse?
a. Protecting human participants by promoting the ethical principles of research.
,b. Providing expert consultation about the way in which clinical services are
delivered.
c. Developing methods to monitor the quality of nursing practice in the clinical
setting.
d. Providing scientific development and leadership by assisting others in applying
scientific knowledge in nursing practice. -✓✓ a. Protecting human participants by
promoting the ethical principles of research.
• Which of the following statements regarding the role of the nurse in research is
true?
a. Nurses must be prepared at the baccalaureate level to have any role in nursing
research.
b. Master's-prepared nurses (those with MSN, MN, or MS degrees) are primarily
responsible for using the findings of nursing research in clinical practice.
c. One role of the nurse is to identify issues in clinical practice that are suitable for
research.
d. Data analysis is only conducted by a PhD-level nurse. -✓✓ c. One role of the
nurse is to identify issues in clinical practice that are suitable for research.
• Which of Florence Nightingale's actions formed the foundation for modern-day
nursing research methods?
a. Establishing the St. Thomas Hospital School of Nursing in England.
b. Writing the curricula for the nineteenth-century nurse training programs.
c. Lobbying the British parliament to enact changes in law for better health care.
d. Collecting data systematically on the health status of British soldiers during the
Crimean War. -✓✓ d. Collecting data systematically on the health status of British
soldiers during the Crimean War.
• What was the focus of most nursing research studies conducted during the
beginning of the twentieth century?
a. Nursing education methods and outcomes.
b. Effects of sanitation on health promotion and disease prevention.
c. Use of epidemiology as a method of identifying risk for specific illnesses.
d. Identification of the most effective means to disseminate positive findings from
nursing research. -✓✓ a. Nursing education methods and outcomes.
, • What action or strategy can limit the depth of nursing research?
a. Addressing physiological and psychological responses to actual or potential
health problems.
b. Employing both qualitative methods and quantitative methods in the same study.
c. Developing programs of research that build on prior investigations.
d. Using singular measures to assess phenomena. -✓✓ d. Using singular measures
to assess phenomena.
• Which of the following is the overall value of developing evidence-informed
nursing practice?
a. Demonstration of how nursing practices make a difference in patient outcomes.
b. Implementation of the most cost-effective nursing practice patterns.
c. Separation of nursing research from the research of other disciplines.
d. Development of new nursing theories. -✓✓ a. Demonstration of how nursing
practices make a difference in patient outcomes.
• How does an international research perspective contribute to the discipline and
science of nursing?
a. By unifying the definition of the term health.
b. By increasing the dissemination potential of research findings.
c. By emphasizing the cultural aspects of nursing care.
d. By testing innovative and cost-effective patient care delivery models. -✓✓ d. By
testing innovative and cost-effective patient care delivery models.
• Which of the following is the identified priority for future nursing research
efforts?
a. Improvement in patient quality of life.
b. Cost containment of health care delivery.
c. Promotion of excellence in nursing science.
d. Promotion of advanced education in nursing. -✓✓ c. Promotion of excellence in
nursing science.
• Review the information from four abstracts below and identify which study is an
example of outcome-based research.
a. This study used a school-based community sample (N = 920) to examine
trajectories of depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and expressed anger in the
critical years of emerging adulthood (ages 18 to 25).
5th Edition Updated Actual Exam Question
and Answer (2026/2027) | Grade A+
• A key step to the development of nursing research was
a. the endowment of nursing research chairs.
b. universities offering baccalaureate nursing programs.
c. a baccalaureate degree becoming the entry to practice.
d. the Canadian Nurses Association developing a research mandate. -✓✓ b.
universities offering baccalaureate nursing programs.
• How is nursing research significant to the profession of nursing?
a. Responsibility is more specifically defined.
b. Liability within the practice of nursing is decreased.
c. A specialized body of knowledge is generated for use in the delivery of health
care.
d. The scope of nursing practice is expanded into areas formerly reserved for other
disciplines. -✓✓ c. A specialized body of knowledge is generated for use in the
delivery of health care.
• Why are nursing practice-oriented scientific investigations valuable?
a. They validate the effectiveness of particular nursing interventions.
b. They encourage consumers to question the quality of health care.
c. They limit the theory base for clinical decision making.
d. They mandate health care reform. -✓✓ a. They validate the effectiveness of
particular nursing interventions.
• When a change in nursing practice results in decreased cost of care, what
additional factor must be considered before general implementation of this change?
a. Ensuring compliance of the change by nurses with diverse educational
backgrounds.
b. Maintaining or improving the quality of care resulting from the change in
practice.
c. Encouraging patients to be active partners in their health care decisions.
,d. Disseminating the change beyond the discipline of nursing. -✓✓ b. Maintaining
or improving the quality of care resulting from the change in
practice.
• Why do nurses who do not conduct research need to understand the nursing
research process?
a. To identify potential participants for clinical research studies
b. To assist in collecting accurate data for clinical research studies
c. To teach patients and families about the usefulness of participation in research
d. To be able to evaluate nursing research reports for relevance to their own
clinical practice -✓✓ d. To be able to evaluate nursing research reports for
relevance to their own clinical practice
• How are nursing theory and nursing research related?
a. Nursing theory and nursing research are independent of each other and have no
direct relationship.
b. Without nursing theory, research conducted by nurses would not have an impact
on nursing practice.
c. Nursing research drives the direction and specific content of nursing theory.
d. Nursing theory and nursing research both advance the knowledge base of
nursing. -✓✓ d. Nursing theory and nursing research both advance the knowledge
base of nursing.
• Which action demonstrates the role of an intelligent consumer of nursing
research?
a. Designing a research study.
b. Analyzing data to determine outcomes.
c. Evaluating the credibility of the research findings.
d. Replicate the study in another setting to confirm the findings. -✓✓ c. Evaluating
the credibility of the research findings.
• In designating research functions to nursing staff, which of the following
functions would you designate to a staff registered nurse?
a. Protecting human participants by promoting the ethical principles of research.
,b. Providing expert consultation about the way in which clinical services are
delivered.
c. Developing methods to monitor the quality of nursing practice in the clinical
setting.
d. Providing scientific development and leadership by assisting others in applying
scientific knowledge in nursing practice. -✓✓ a. Protecting human participants by
promoting the ethical principles of research.
• Which of the following statements regarding the role of the nurse in research is
true?
a. Nurses must be prepared at the baccalaureate level to have any role in nursing
research.
b. Master's-prepared nurses (those with MSN, MN, or MS degrees) are primarily
responsible for using the findings of nursing research in clinical practice.
c. One role of the nurse is to identify issues in clinical practice that are suitable for
research.
d. Data analysis is only conducted by a PhD-level nurse. -✓✓ c. One role of the
nurse is to identify issues in clinical practice that are suitable for research.
• Which of Florence Nightingale's actions formed the foundation for modern-day
nursing research methods?
a. Establishing the St. Thomas Hospital School of Nursing in England.
b. Writing the curricula for the nineteenth-century nurse training programs.
c. Lobbying the British parliament to enact changes in law for better health care.
d. Collecting data systematically on the health status of British soldiers during the
Crimean War. -✓✓ d. Collecting data systematically on the health status of British
soldiers during the Crimean War.
• What was the focus of most nursing research studies conducted during the
beginning of the twentieth century?
a. Nursing education methods and outcomes.
b. Effects of sanitation on health promotion and disease prevention.
c. Use of epidemiology as a method of identifying risk for specific illnesses.
d. Identification of the most effective means to disseminate positive findings from
nursing research. -✓✓ a. Nursing education methods and outcomes.
, • What action or strategy can limit the depth of nursing research?
a. Addressing physiological and psychological responses to actual or potential
health problems.
b. Employing both qualitative methods and quantitative methods in the same study.
c. Developing programs of research that build on prior investigations.
d. Using singular measures to assess phenomena. -✓✓ d. Using singular measures
to assess phenomena.
• Which of the following is the overall value of developing evidence-informed
nursing practice?
a. Demonstration of how nursing practices make a difference in patient outcomes.
b. Implementation of the most cost-effective nursing practice patterns.
c. Separation of nursing research from the research of other disciplines.
d. Development of new nursing theories. -✓✓ a. Demonstration of how nursing
practices make a difference in patient outcomes.
• How does an international research perspective contribute to the discipline and
science of nursing?
a. By unifying the definition of the term health.
b. By increasing the dissemination potential of research findings.
c. By emphasizing the cultural aspects of nursing care.
d. By testing innovative and cost-effective patient care delivery models. -✓✓ d. By
testing innovative and cost-effective patient care delivery models.
• Which of the following is the identified priority for future nursing research
efforts?
a. Improvement in patient quality of life.
b. Cost containment of health care delivery.
c. Promotion of excellence in nursing science.
d. Promotion of advanced education in nursing. -✓✓ c. Promotion of excellence in
nursing science.
• Review the information from four abstracts below and identify which study is an
example of outcome-based research.
a. This study used a school-based community sample (N = 920) to examine
trajectories of depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and expressed anger in the
critical years of emerging adulthood (ages 18 to 25).
